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BIOGRAPHIES
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J. H. Beers & Co.
1889
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ROBERT E. McAFEE
is one of the
most intelligent and progressive farmers of Chester Township.
His father, Samuel McAffee, is a highly respected citizen of
the same township, Samuel McAffee was born on the sea coast
in County Antrim, Ireland, Dec. 25, 1804, the eldest of eight
children, six sons and two daughters, of William and Margaret (Taggert)
McAffee. He remained in his native country until
twenty-one years of age, when he set sail for America. Landing
in Philadelphia, he remained in Pennsylvania for three years, when
he returned to his native country, where he remained ten years.
In 1838 he married Grace Stinson, daughter of Rev.
David Stinson. In the same year, with his wife and his
parents, and their family, he again came to America, and they at
once made their home in Wayne County, Ohio, where the father bought
a (quarter section of land in Sugar Creek Township), where he made
his home until his death, at the age of seventy-six years.
Samuel McAffee, from the date of his coming to Wayne County,
devoted his attention to farming. In 1850 he bought the home
where he now lives, which contains 106 acres of land, well improved.
It was originally the property of Jacob Kreamer.
To Mr. McAffee and his wife, neι
Grace Stinson, were born six children, viz.: John,
Martha, Joseph, Sarah, Mary and Samuel. The
mother died and Mr. McAffee afterward married
Susan Girl, daughter of William Girl.
Six children have been born to them: Robert E., Susan, Matthew (deceased),
Kate, Grace and David. Z.
Robert E. McAffee was born in 1846, and has all
his life been identified with the interests of Chester Township.
He now superintends the work of the home farm, thus relieving his
father of care and responsibility. He has always taken an
active interest in the welfare and government of his township, and
has served several years as township trustee and school director.
In politics he is a Republican. He was married in 1869 to
Mary, daughter of Joseph McHelinery, of Wayne
County. They have a family of nine children, viz.: Leopold,
Thomas L., Marietta, Annie, Edward, Frederick, Bertha, Jennie and
Kate. Mr. and Mr. McAffee are members of the United
Presbyterian Church.
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MRS. M. J. McBRIDE,
widow of JOHN K. McBRIDE,
is a native of Wooster, born in the house where she now lives Apr.
23, 1823. With the exception of eight years her entire life
has been passed in Wooster, where she was educated in a select
school taught by Mrs. McKee. In 1844 she was united in
marriage with Mr. John K. McBride, who was born in
Westmoreland County, , Penn., in 1809. His parents,
Alexander and Anna J. (Kelly) McBride, were also natives of that
State. When Mr. McBride was a small boy his parents
decided to come to Ohio, and on arriving here settled on a farm
three miles from Wooster. In 1863 the mother passed away, at
the age of seventy-five, and in 1869 the father followed her to the
grave, aged eighty-four years. He had farmed until too old for
active labor, when he retired to Wooster.
The early life of John K. McBride was passed
upon the farm, and his education was obtained at the country
schools. When about eighteen years old he began learning the
trade of a chair-maker, but later entered mercantile life,
continuing there in until 1863, in which year he was elected probate
judge of Wayne County, which position he filled for two terms.
This decided him to enter the profession of law, and the rest of his
life was passed in its study and practice, and he was very
successful and prosperous. He was elected a member of the
constitutional convention of 1872, which drafted the present
constitution of the State. Nov. 6, 1886, Mr. McBride
was called to his last rest, at the age of seventy-seven years.
He had been twice married, and by his first marriage became father
of two children, one of whom is yet living, Harry, a
commission merchant in New York City. Of his marriage with the
estimable lady whose name heads this sketch one son was born,
Thomas A., who became a physician, and practiced in New York,
where he attained considerable eminence. He died in August,
1886, while returning from Europe on the steamer "Aller," and was
buried at sea, having been for the benefit of his health to the
Carlsbad Springs, Germany. This blow was a heavy one for the
parents, and undoubtedly hastened the death of the father.
Dr. McBride was a graduate of Kenyon College, Ohio, and had also
graduated in medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in
New York City.
John K. McBride occupied a prominent position in
the business and social circles of the county. He was a member
of the Odd Fellows order, of the Knights of Pythias, and in his
earlier life became a Freemason. He was truly a self-made man,
who by his own energy and close application won the large measure of
the success which he achieved. He was universally respected in
the community, and had the entire confidence of every, one who knew
him. He and his estimable wife were both active members of the
Episcopal Church in Wooster. Since the death of her husband,
Mrs. McBride has resided in her childhood's home in
Wooster with her widowed sister, Mrs. M. A. Shively, and is
calmly awaiting the summons which shall reunite her to him who has
gone before. All of the family are well known in Wooster,
where they are held in the highest regard.
MARTHA A. SHIVELY
is the widow of A. R. Shively, one of Wooster's formerly
well-known citizens. She was born in the house where she now
lives, in Wooster, May 5, 1831. Her family history is more
fully given under the name of her brother. Dr. James D.
Robison on another page.
On May 15, 1856, she was united in marriage with A.
R. Shively, a native of Pottsville, Penn., and later a resident
of Reading, Penn. At the age of twenty-two he came to Wooster,
and embarked in the foundry business, which he had learned in his
native State, carrying it on in connection with an uncle. Here
he lived the rest of his life, dying in February, 1870, when but
thirty-nine years of age. By this marriage Mrs. Shively
became the mother of six children: Ellen D., wife of
Rev. W. S. Cochran, of Caryopolis; John McB., a resident
of Montana; Ann, Mrs. Hugh M. Annat, of Wooster;
Edward, living in Cleveland, Ohio; and George J. and
Martha L., with their mother. Mr. Shively was one
of Wooster's progressive business men, and his loss was felt in the
community, where he was esteemed as an upright man and a good
citizen. Since her husband's demise, Mrs. Shively has
continued to live in her old home. She is a member of the
First Presbyterian Church of Wooster, and is much respected.
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DEWITT CLINTON McCLARRAN
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HARRY McCLARREN
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JOHN McCLELLAN
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JOHN McCLELLAN, SR.
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ADDISON S. McCLURE
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CHARLES W. McCLURE
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MATTHEW McCLURE
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WILBUR D. McCLURE
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Thomas McConkey |
MAHALETH McCONKEY
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CHARLES McCORMISH,
druggist, Doylestown, Ohio, was born in Armstrong County, Penn.,
Aug. 29, 1829, and is a son of William and Margery (Carroll)
McCormish, who in 1835 settled in Lawrence Township, Stark Co.,
Ohio, and engaged in farming; later removed to Summit County, same
State, and finally to Chippewa Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, where they
resided until their deaths. They were the parents of nine
children, viz.: Robert, Josiah, Mary E., Charles, Thomas, Jane,
Harriet, Sarah and William.
Our subject was reared principally in Ohio, and
received a common-school education. At the age of thirteen
years he left home, and subsequently engaged in various occupations.
In 1854 he married Margaret J., daughter of George and
Margaret (Carens) Bowersock, of Wayne County. After his
marriage he engaged in farming in Chippewa Township, at which he
continued until 1861, when through a fall he became a cripple, and
removed to Doylestown, where he was employed as a stationary
engineer in the machine shops of Cline, Seiberling &
Co. up to 1872. He then embarked in the drug business in
Doylestown, in which he has since successfully continued, and is the
proprietor of the leading drug store in the village. He is a
member of the Masonic fraternity, Odd Fellows order, Lodge and
Encampment, Royal Arcanum and Knights of Pythias. He is an
active worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically
he is a stanch Republican, and has held the office of township
trustee two terms, being elected both times over his opponents by
handsome majorities in a Democratic township.
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THOMAS McELHENIE.
The McEllenie family has been prominently identified with the
history of affairs of Chippewa Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, and, to a
greater or less extent, with the county itself, for more than half a
century, and it is fitting that mention of the family should be made
in this work. Thomas McElnenie was of Scotch-Irish
descent, his paternal ancestors coming from the land of Barns
and Scott, and those on his maternal side from the "Emerald
Isle." There is no authentic record of their immigration to
America, nor of the early history of the family prior to the advent
of the member whose name heads this sketch. Thoams
McElnenie was born in Huntington County, Penn., Mar. 26, 1787,
and was one of the large family of children. That he stood in
a line of multiplying people is evidenced by the fact that persons
of the same name whose ancestry hailed from the same locality, are
widely and thickly scattered over the country (many of them having
come directly from great Britain), and by the further fact that his
own posterity comprise no inconsideration number. In his early
years he taught school, afterward engaging in agricultural pursuits.
Dec. 12, 1812, he married Margaret Eaken of Centre County,
Penn., also of Scotch-Irish parentage. Her father was the
youngest of eleven brothers, and of her own family but little is
known except that two of her brothers, Robert and Andrew
Eaken, were afterward residents of Chippewa Township.
Wayne County, the latter having been an ensign with Commodore
Perry in his famous battle on Lake Erie, and the fourth man
to board the British fleet. Mr. McElhenie lived
for fifteen years on one of the many farms owned by James
Duncan, in Penn's Valley, and in the winter season was one of
the many who carried on trade between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia by
teaming across the mountains. To him were born nine children, sis
sons and three daughters. Two sons died in infancy, and the
rest of the children were as follows: William, John, Margaret C,
Elizabeth K., James E., Thomas J. and Jane. In 1833
Mr. McElhenie made a prospecting tour to Ohio, and in May,
1834, he purchased eighty acres of land near Easton, in Chippewa
Township, on the bank of the Big Chippewa Creek, and opened a
tavern, which he kept several years. In 1844 he sold his farm,
and located in Easton, where he built a large house, at the east end
of the village, now owned and occupied by his youngest son,
Thomas J. Before he left Pennsylvania he had held the office of
Justice of the Peace, his commission from Gov. Gregg
being still in the possession of his son, Thomas J.
Soon after coming to Ohio he was elected to the same office,
which he continued to hold for several terms. As a magistrate
he always endeavored to induce litigants to compromise rather than
to go on with a suit. Upon his first election his wife's
nephew, John Eaken, then a cabinet-maker in the
neighborhood, said: "Now, uncle, you must have a chair and desk in
keeping with the dignity of your office," and made the same, which
are still in possession of the son, who for many years used them in
his administration of the same office (as will be mentioned farther
on). Mr. McElhenie was a man of sterling
character, one of the sturdy yeomanry who braved the trials of
pioneer life, and out of the wild chaos forged the chain of
civilization which brought the great State of Ohio to its present
proud position in the galaxy of States. Some time after moving
over to the village Mr. McElhenie opened a store,
afterward taking his youngest son, Thomas J., into
partnership with him, and they continued in business there until a
short time before the War of the Rebellion, when they were overcome
by the effects of the panic of 1857. Mr. McElhenie
afterward lived the quiet life suited to his years, and on Apr. 23,
1871, he died, at the age of eighty-four years. His wife,
Margaret, born July 12, 1793, survived until Nov. 22, 1874, when
she died at the residence of her youngest daughter, Mrs.
Jane Brattin, near Easton. Of their children,
William, who was a tailor by trade, was twice married, and died
at Mendota, Ill. (a portion of his family now reside at La Salle,
Ill.); John married Sarah Brouse, and reared a large
family (they now reside in Steuben County, Ind.); Margaret C.
married Ephraim Martin, and became the mother of four
children (he is dead, and she lives with a daughter at Mogadore,
Ohio); Elizabeth K. married Michael D. Dague (they
live in Doylestown, Ohio, and are referred to at length elsewhere in
this work); James E., who was twice married, and reared a
large family, is now a resident of Steuben County, Ind.; Thomas
J.; Jane, the youngest, married George W. Brattin (they
now live in Williams County, Ohio).
Thomas J. McElhenie was born in Centre County,
Penn., July 4, 1826, the day upon which ex-Presidents John Adams
and Thomas Jefferson died, and was named in honor of the
latter. He was reared in Chippewa Township from eight years of
age, and his education was obtained at the district schools, the
famous McGregor Academy, at Wadsworth, and under "Priest" Abbott,
the Presbyterian minister at Doylestown. Like his father, he
taught school for some time, then went into the store with his
father. Mar. 22, 1848, Mr. McElhenie married Sarah
B., daughter of Abram Van Eman, a stanch Presbyterian
farmer of Lawrence Township, Stark Co., Ohio. Upon the failure
of the firm, in 1859, and during the auction sale which followed, he
kept a restaurant, which grew through several stages until by
1872-73 (at the time of the building of the railroad through the
village) he was occupying the old storeroom, greatly enlarged, and
doing a large business. For several years he held the office
of Justice of the Peace, and was also Constable and Township
Trustee. In 1874 he was elected to the office of County
Auditor, in which capacity he served with credit to himself and the
county for four years, or two successive terms. After retiring
from office he engaged in the grocery business at Wooster, Ohio, but
sold out the next fall, and returned to Easton, where he had
invested his means in land adjoining the village, which he still
owns and cultivates. After returning to Chippewa Township he
was elected Constable until the office of Justice of the Peace
became vacant, when he was again chosen to that office, holding the
same until 1888, when he declined to serve longer, saying that, as
he had held the office seven terms, or one term longer than any
other man in the township, he felt that his ambition ought to be
satisfied. His children were nine in number, of whom four grew
to maturity, viz.: Thomas D., James V., Mary B. and Lillian
M. Of these, Thomas D. learned the drug business in
Wooster, graduating at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1872,
and is now a prominent druggist of Brooklyn, N. Y. He married
Miss Belle Osborne, of Wooster. Ohio. James V.,
the second son, was brought up behind the counter in his father's
store; attended Smithville High School a few terms; taught school
one term; occupied various clerical positions, including about two
years' service in the County Auditor's office with his father, and
upon the retirement of the latter he purchased the office of the
Journal newspaper at Doylestown from its founder, G. W. Everts,
which he conducted until 1883, in which year, on account of ill
health, he sold out to G. A. Corbus, of Wooster. Mar.
29, 1881, Mr. McElhenie married Miss Laura J.
France, of Wooster, one of whose grandfathers was John
Lehman, who died in Wayne Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, in 1886, at
the age of ninety-four. She died Oct. 27, 1883, leaving one
child, Paul. After a variety of experiences, six months
in Nebraska, two years of farming, and the establishment of the
Sun newspaper at Fredericksburgh, together with its management
for nine months, Mr. McElhenie again found himself, in
October, 1887, in charge of the Doylestown Journal, under a lease.
In March following he purchased the office outright, and continues
in charge at this writing. On Dec. 13, 1888, Mr. McElhenie
again entered the marriage relation, his wife being Miss
Anna Hawkins, of Fredericksburgh, a granddaughter of
Joseph Hawkins, one of the early settlers of the county.
Her father was chief musician of the One Hundred and Twentieth
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the War of the Rebellion,
and was confined in Libby and Camp Ford (Tyler, Tex.) prisons.
Mary B. and Lillian M. remain at home in Easton with their
parents.
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Albert McFadden |
ALBERT MCFADDEN
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SAMUEL McQUIGG
is a native of Ireland, born Feb. 12, 1837, and was six years old
when his parents came to this country and located in Wayne County,
Ohio. His life has been spent in this county, and since
reaching manhood he has devoted his attention to the vocation of his
father, and now has a good farm of 200 acres, situated two miles
southeast of Wooster, on the Mount Eaton road. He has
largely been the carver of his own fortunes, and is now enjoying the
fruits of his many years of hardship and toil. He is a
representative of one of the well-known families of the county, and
is held in high esteem by a large circle of friends and
acquaintances. He has always been public spirited and
enterprising, and it has been his ambition to see his children
occupying responsible positions in life. In this he is not
likely to be disappointed, as his son has already gained distinction
in the law department of Cornell University, and is completing his
course in the National Law School at Washington, D. C. Mr.
McQuigg is a Republican in his political views, and while he is
a stanch supporter of his party, is in no sense a politician.
He is a member of the United Presbyterian Church, as was also his
wife.
He was married, in 1863, to Miss Jane McKinney,
a native of Washington County, Penn., whose parents, William and
Jane (Ray) McKinney, came to Wayne County in her childhood.
They lived in Plain Township after marriage until 1884, when they
sold their farm there and located on the farm where Mr. McQuigg
now lives. Mrs. McQuigg died Sept. 15, 1887, aged
forty-nine years. To them were born six children, viz.:
Lizzie, died aged eighteen months; John R., attorney
at law; Jennie, died aged nineteen years; Stella, Hinda
and Willie are at home. Since the death of the mother
the home has been presided over by the daughters, who are young
ladies of culture, occupying high social standing in the community.
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ALBERT
B. MACKEY was born in Maysville, Ohio, Nov.
27, 1846, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Cunningham)
Mackey). William Mackey, the grandfather of Albert B.,
was born in Londonderry, Ireland, and immigrated to America in 1808.
He was a cabinet-maker by trade, and remained in New York City,
working at the same until 1813 or 1814, when he came to Wayne
County, and entered a tract of land on Section 1, in Salt Creek
Township of land on Section 1, in Salt Creek Township, where he
lived until his death, in 1869. He was an energetic,
prosperous man, and one of the leading men of the township.
During the War of 1812 he served in the New York militia. His
family consisted of ten children, as follows: Eve (now
Mrs. John Clum, of Defiance County, Ohio), Rosana,
Elizabeth, Murabra, Margaret, Tamor and Sophronia (all
deceased), Lucinda (now Mrs. Manoah Franks, of
Kendallville, Ind.), John (deceased) and Cyrus.
Of these, John
was in Salt Creek Township, Wayne County, in 1824, and was reared on
the homestead. At an early age he and one Daniel Reider
laid out the township of Maysville, Ohio. After his marriage
he located on a tract of land adjoining that of his father, and
lived there until his death, by accident, in a saw-mill, in1850.
His wife was a daughter of James Cunningham, a native of
Fayette County, Penn., who entered a tract of land in Salt Creek
Township in 1816, and in 1819 located on the farm now owned by
Albert B. and his brother, John, where he died May 6,
1868. John Mackey reared three children:
Albert B. (our subject), Mary Jane (deceased) and John,
residing on the homestead.
Albert B. was educated at Savannah Academy, in
Ashland County, Smithville and Fredericksburgh, Ohio, and studied
the profession of a civil engineer, which he followed for three
years on the Pacific coast, during two years of which he was
employed by the Government. He read law with John P.
Jefferies, of Wooster, Ohio, but was never admitted to practice.
He lived on the farm until 1884, when he moved his family to Apple
Creek. Jan. 1, 1874, Mr. Mackey married Clara E.,
daughter of Adam Henning, of Salt Creek Township, Wayne
County, and by this union they have five children:
Radie, Edwin A., Florence M., John H. and Bertha M.
Mr. Mackey has served as county surveyor, and as justice of
the peace of East Union and Salt Creek Townships for twelve
years. He is a member of Apple Creek Lodge, No. 674, I. O. O.
F., Apple Creek Lodge, No. 324, K. of P., and votes with the
Democratic party.
JOHN MACKEY was born Aug. 9,
1850, at Maysville, Ohio. He was educated at the township
schools and the academy at Savannah, and has always followed
farming. In 1874 he married Miss Mary Grosjean,
daughter of Eugene Grosjean, of Salt Creek Township, Wayne
County. She died Oct. 26, 1879, leaving one child, Eugenie.
By his present wife, nee Mary Jane Brown, daughter of
E. A. Brown, of Wooster, Ohio, Mr. Mackey has two
children: Ralph Waldo and Maud Alma. Mr. Mackey
is a Republican in politics, and has served as president of the
school board of Salt Creek Township for four years. He is now
serving his second term as township trustee.
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HENRY MARSHALL,
a well-known citizen of Wayne County, was born in Doylestown, Wayne
Co., Ohio, May 24, 1846. His paternal grandfather, who was a
native of foreign land, immigrated to America, here to make a home,
and located near Gettysburg, Penn., but later came to Wayne County,
Ohio, where the father of our subject was born. He (the
father) became a farmer, and in 1842 was married to Miss Helen
Shondel (formerly written Schandel), a native of France,
who had come to America with her parents, locating near Canton,
Ohio, when she was five years of age, and still later settling of
Milton Township, Wayne Co., Ohio. To this union two children
were born, viz.: Joseph, in Doylestown, Ohio, and Henry.
In 1864 the father was called to the grave, and in 1869 the mother
followed him.
Henry Marshall first worked on his father's
farm, receiving in the meantime a common-school education, until he
was seventeen years of age, when he met with an accident which
changed the course of his life. While felling a tree it lodged
in another, and suddenly loosening fell upon him, breaking his leg
so badly that amputation above the knee was found to be necessary.
After this unfortunate accident he spent four years at the Canton
High School, and then returned to Doylestown, where he entered the
grocery business, in which he remained several years. During
this time he efficiently filled the position of township clerk for
several years, representing the Democratic party, to which he has
ever owed allegiance. In 1881 he was elected county recorder,
and was re-elected in 1884. In February, 1888, he was
appointed deputy judge of probate, which position he is still
filling, IN 1874 he chose a life's partner in the person of
Miss Celia Dagenhart, daughter of Joseph and Cecelia
Dagenhart, both now deceased, and a native of Massillon, Ohio.
The maternal grandfather of our subject, Christian
Schandel, was a soldier in the French army, accompanying
Napoleon in his Russian campaign of 1812, and was badly frozen
in the terrible retreat from Moscow.
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DANIEL
C. MARTIN was born in Cumberland County, Penn., Apr. 17,
1826, and died May 3, 1889. He was a son of David and
Elizabeth (Coble) Martin, the former of whom was born in
Lancaster County, Penn., in 1795. The parents were married in
February, 1819, and had a family of six sons and three daughters, as
follows: Sons - John, Jacob and Levi, who died
in infancy; Daniel C., our subject; David, who now
lives in Stockton, Kas., and Abraham, who died in the Union
army during the war of the Rebellion. Daughters - Martha,
who married John Irwin, now living in Dalton, Ohio;
Elizabeth, who married David Miller, now living in
Kansas, and Mary, who died in infancy. David Martin,
the father of this family, moved from Cumberland County, Penn., to
Wayne County, Ohio, in 1832, when Daniel C. was a six-year
old boy.
The subject of this biographical memoir attended the
public schools in Sugar Creek Township, Wayne County, but when
nineteen years of age he was disabled by hip disease. He then
taught school for two years, and afterward entered mercantile
business at Reedsburgh, Plain Township, Wayne County, continuing in
the same six years, during which time he read and practiced law,
being admitted to the bar of Wayne County in 1857. In 1853
Mr. Martin was elected a justice of the peace, which office he
held three years; was also appointed notary public, holding that
office at the time of his death. For ten years from 1876
Mr. Martin was a licensed minister in the Methodist Episcopal
Church. Feb. 20, 1849, he was married to Cordelia Goudy,
of Dalton, Ohio, who bore him four children, viz.: Clara, who
married W. B. McClellan, and now living in Urbana, Ohio;
John Hess, living in Reedsburgh, Wayne County; Ida, who
married George W. Obenour, of Plain Township, Wayne County,
and Flora, who died when three years of age. The mother
of this family died in 1865, and in February, 1884, Mr. Martin
married Julia Fornshell, of Wooster, Ohio.
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Jas. Martin, M.D. |
JAMES MARTIN,
son of John and Ruth (Moore) Martin, was born on Martin's
Creek, Holmes Co., Ohio, Oct. 20, 1824. His grandfather,
Edward Martin, was a native American, born in Essex County, N.
Y., near the New Jersey line. He removed to Beaver County,
Penn., where he married Catherine McCready (also native born,
but of Scotch descent), and after some years moved to New Lisbon,
Columbiana Co., Ohio, and in 1810 to what is now Holmes County,
Ohio, where he was a farmer, and owner of one of the important
industries of that time - a saw-mill - which supplied the
surrounding county with lumber. There they both died, leaving
six children: Catherine, John, Abigail,
Joseph, Naomi and Elizabeth, all of whom are
deceased except Joseph, who is now a resident of Keokuk
County, Iowa. John, first-born son of Edward and
Catherine Martin, was born in Beaver County, Penn., in 1795, and
with his parents moved to Ohio. In 1823 he married Ruth,
daughter of John Moore, of Salt Creek Township, Holmes
County, and they located in Wayne County, near Shreve, in what is
now Clinton Township, where they carried on farming until the fall
of 1837, when they removed to Middletown, Holmes County, and later
to Salt Creek Township, same county, where they remained until their
decease. Their children were James, Joseph W.,
John H., Mary, Susan, Sarah, Nancy J.
and Edward. Of these, Joseph W. married Sarah
J. Hayes, and occupies the old homestead in Salt Creek Township,
Holmes County; John H. married Mary Hayes, and resides
in Salt Creek Township, Wayne County; Mary died in 1849;
Susan is now Mrs. William Moore, of Salt Creek Township,
Wayne County; Sarah died in 1849; Nancy J. is now
Mrs. E. L. Caseveer, of Auburn, Ind., and has a family of four
sons; Edward died when three years of age.
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JOHN H. MARTIN,
son of John and Ruth (Moore) Martin, was born in Clinton
Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, in 1829, was reared and received his
school training in Holmes County, and, having received a liberal
education, he taught school successfully for some time. In
1852 he traveled across the plains to California, where he remained
five years, engaged in mining. Returning in 1857, he married,
in 1859, Mary L., daughter of Samuel and Eliza Hayes,
and located in Prairie Township, Holmes Co., Ohio, near Holmesville,
where he carried on farming, and where two children were born:
Janetta Irwin and Charles Fremont.
In 1865 he purchased the farm he now owns in Salt Creek
Township, Wayne County, to which he removed in 1866, and where he
has since resided. Here one child was born, George Jared,
now at home with his parents. Mr. Martin enlisted in
Company A, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
100-days' service, and was on guard duty at Washington, D. C. Mr.
and Mrs. Martin are members of the Congregational Church;
politically he is a Republican.
[For early history of the Martin family see sketch of
James Martin.]
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GEORGE MATHES
is a son of Martin and Margaret (Rott) Mathes,
natives of France, who came to America in 1843, and settled in
Canaan Township, Wayne Co., Ohio. The father, who was a
prominent member of the Reformed Church, died in 1883; his widow
still surviving him. They reared eight eight children, five of
whom are living: Margaret, wife of Jacob Weimer
of Holmes County, Ohio; Sarah, wife of Jacob Broomter,
in Wooster Township, Wayne County; George; Barnhart,
in Michigan; Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Hope, in
Calamazoo, Mich.
The subject of these lines was born in France, Dec. 2,
1833; came to Wayne County with his parents, and learned the
carpenter's trade, which he followed for many years. In 1860
he purchased the farm adjoining him, and in 1884 traded that for his
present farm of 140 acres, in Canaan Township, Wayne County.
In 1860 he married Christina, daughter of Balsar
Haas, of Canaan Township. She died in 1872, leaving four
children: Alice, wife of Ernest Benjamin, of
Medina County, Ohio; Emma, wife of Ellis W. Zehner, in
West Salem (has one child, an infant); Ida, wife of
Deforest Smith, of Canaan Township; Matilda, at
home. Mr. Mathes' present wife is Louisa,
daughter of Charles Galwitz, of Holmes County, and by
her he has two children, Jessie and Charles.
Mr. Mathes is a member of the Republican party, with
prohibition proclivities, and has filled various township offices.
At present writing he holds the office of school director. He
is an elder in the Reformed Church of Canaan.
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MILLER FAMILY.
This well-known family, who have for many years been residents of
Wayne County, are now represented here by three of the sons of
JACOB
and Magdalena (Gindlesperger) Miller, viz: John W.,
Jacob A. and William W. On both sides the family
are of German extraction, the paternal grandparents being Joseph
and Elizabeth Miller, both natives of Somerset County, Penn.,
where they died. The maternal grandparents were Joseph and
Magdalena Gindlesperger, the former a native of Germany and the
latter born in Pennsylvania. In that State they were married,
and later removed to Wayne County, Ohio, settling in Baughman
Township, where some of their descendants yet live, their son,
Joseph, occupying the home farm there.
Grandfather Miller had been twice married, and
the father of the three Millers mentioned as residents of
this county was a child of his first wife, who died three days after
giving him birth. He was named Jacob, and was born in
Somerset County, Penn., Apr. 3, 1814, and died on the homestead, in
Greene Township, this county, Nov. 25, 1885, aged seventy-one years,
seven months and twenty-two days. He received his education in
the district schools of his native county, and was instructed in the
doctrines of the Lutheran Church at Pine Hill, near Berlin, Penn.,
and was there confirmed when twenty years old. From that time
until his demise Jacob Miller was a pious and consistent church
member. In the fall of 1836, when twenty-two years of age,
he immigrated to Wayne County, settling on the farm on Section 20,
in Greene Township, which was his home until his death. The
farm comprised 160 acres, of which but twenty-five were partially
cleared. All the rest he reclaimed from the wilderness,
enduring much of the hardships and privations of a pioneer life.
Long before his death he had it well fenced, provided it with good
buildings, and had made it one of the best in the neighborhood.
On Sept. 11, 1834, while a resident of Somerset County,
Penn., he was married to Magdalen Gindlesperger, a native of
that county, born July 1, 1813. She also died on the home
farm, on Feb. 4, 1886, aged seventy-two years, seven months and
three days. Mrs. Miller was a member of the German
Reformed Church, holding her membership until her death. She
and her husband had lived together more than fifty-one years, and on
the anniversary of their wedding day, preceding the death of Mr.
Miller, a family reunion was held to celebrate the event, and a
large number of the descendants and friends assembled to do honor to
the aged and honored couple. But a little more than two months
later the good pioneer was called to his final home, the companion
of so many years, following him to the other shore a few weeks
afterward. In life they had lived in peace and harmony,
sharing each others joys and sorrows for more than half a century,
and in death they were but a short time parted. They were
faithful and devoted companions, kind parents, who brought up their
children in the fear of the Lord, and were esteemed by all who knew
them. Mr. Miller had been a deacon and elder in the
Lutheran Church for many years, since the organization of the church
at Smithville until his death, which was mourned by a large circle
of friends. He and his wife, Magdalen, were the parents
of seven sons and three daughters, as follows: Cyrus B.,
now a resident of Marshalltown, Iowa; John W., a farmer
of Greene Township, in this county; Abraham J., living at
Whitten, Hardin Co., Iowa; Margaret, wife of Jesse S.
Keiffer, of Bryan, Ohio; Cornelius J., of Wayne Township,
this county; Mary E., deceased wife of Dr. J. C. Dreyher,
then of Smithville; Jacob A. living on the old homestead;
Susan, deceased wife of David H. Warfel, then of Greene
Township; and William W., a merchant in Orrville, Wayne
County.
JOHN W. MILLER, the eldest of the three sons of
Jacob Miller residing in Wayne County, was born on the Ohio
homestead, Jan. 14, 1838. His life-long occupation has been
that of a farmer. On his marriage he removed to a farm owned
his father, one and a half miles from his birthplace, and there
lived eleven years.
In the spring of 1874 he settled on his present home,
adjoining his father's, also on Section 20, Greene Township, which
he bought from the heirs of his wife's father. July 10, 1861,
he was united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Weiler, daughter
of William and Ann Eliza Weiler, natives of Pennsylvania, the
father born in Reading, Berks County, and the mother in Chester
County. They came to Ohio about the same time as the parents
of Mr. Miller, locating first in Stark County, with the
parents of Mr. Weiler; afterward coming to Wayne County,
where they bought the farm adjoining that of Jacob Miller.
Their parents were Joseph and Rosanna Weiler the former of
whom died while on a visit to some of his children in Indiana, and
the latter in the home now owned by John W. Miller.
William Weiler was a man of excellent character, well liked by
all who knew him, and had hosts of friends. He died June 4,
1866, aged fifty-nine years and eight months, being born Oct. 4,
1806. His wife, Ann Eliza, was born Jan. 18, 1810, and
died Mar. 1, 1880, aged seventy years, one month and fourteen days.
They were the parents of eleven children, Mrs. Miller, being
the only one living in Wayne County. Their names are Rosanna
wife of James R. Shaffer, of Lima, Ohio; William
C., living in Sedalia, Mo.; Louisa, deceased wife of
James K. Ward, of Columbiana County, Ohio; Joseph, who
was a resident of Stark County, Ohio, entered the Union army, and
was killed at Murfreesboro, Tenn.; John J. lives in
Tennessee; Rebecca died young; Hamilton was also a
patriot soldier, and was killed at Athens, Tenn.; Sarah Ann Grace
is the wife of Cassius M. Jolly, of Lima, Ohio; Henry
is a resident of Tennessee; Alice Malvina died in
childhood; and Mary E., wife of John W. Miller who was
the eldest but one of this family, and was born July 18, 1833.
She and her husband have had five children. The second child,
Ulysses S. G., died Feb. 27, 1880, aged sixteen years.
The survivors are Elmer E., born Feb. 1, 1863, married to
Nettie March living on his father's farm; William J.,
born May 31, 1866, is a telegraph operator at Orrville, Ohio; and
Jesse Amnon born May 28, 1871, and Johnny Hays, born Aug.
28, 1876, still under the parental roof.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller are members of the Lutheran
Church, of which he has been, since the death of his father, an
elder, being elected to succeed him. Previous to that he had
been a trustee and a deacon. By his neighbors and friends
John W. Miller is esteemed as a man of great probity of
character and sterling integrity. Mr. Miller has been
prominent in politics, and has filled several positions of trust.
He has served as trustee several years, and for twenty years has
been a member of the school board, of which he has been president a
number of years. May 2, 1864, he enlisted in Company A, One
Hundred and Sixty-ninth Ohio Infantry, and was stationed at Fort
Ethan Allen, Virginia; the following July he was taken sick with
typhoid-malarial fever, and in August was sent home on sick
furlough, and in September was discharged from the service, but has
never fully recovered from the effects of this sickness.
JACOB A. MILLER, a younger son of Jacob
Miller, now lives on the old homestead on Section 20, Greene
Township, where he was born Jan. 7, 1850. He lived on the farm
until he was twenty-one years of age, when he engaged in the lumber
business, principally for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Railroad, furnishing car timber. In the occupation he
continued for sixteen years, making his home for the first two and a
half years in Seneca County, Ohio, and the balance of the time in
Defiance County, Ohio. In that business Mr. Miller was
quite successful, and accumulated considerable means. He now
owns a fine, will-improved farm in Defiance County. While
living there Mr. Miller served several terms as township
trustee, and also held other positions of trust and responsibility.
In March, 1887, he retired from the lumber business, and, buying the
interests of the other heirs, returned to the place of his birth,
where he expects to spend the remainder of his days. He is
making many improvements on the place, and has partially rebuilt the
house.
Mar. 4, 1884, Mr. Miller was married to Miss
Sarah Pittenger, daughter of Peter and Jane (Buchanan)
Pittinger, then residents of Carroll County, Ohio, who had
previously lived in Harrison County, Ohio. The father was born
in Harrison County, Oct. 1, 1800, and died Feb. 9, 1854, aged
fifty-three years, seven months and twenty-three days. The
mother, Jane Buchanan, was born in Pennsylvania July 11,
1803, and was three years old when her parents moved to Ohio.
On both sides her ancestors were of that sturdy race of pioneers who
laid the foundations of the prosperity of the grand State of Iowa.
After their marriage Peter and Jane Pittenger removed to
Carroll County, Ohio, where they in turn carved a home out of the
wilderness. Of their first purchase of eighty acres but five
were partially cleared. To this they added eighty acres more,
and made it by hard work a fine, well-cultivated farm. Their
first house was a log cabin, with puncheon floor, and door hung on
wooden hinges, in true frontier style. This was succeeded by a
hewed log house, yet standing, and that by a comfortable frame
house. Mrs. Pittenger died Oct. 20, 1872, aged
sixty-nine years, three months and nine days. This couple had
ten children, as follows: Samuel B., and Mary,
wife of Isaac Booth, of Indiana; Margaret, wife of
David Davis, and John, residents of Carroll County, Ohio;
Nancy, wife of Alex Riley, in Stark County, Ohio;
Joseph, Evan, Susannah and Abraham, deceased; and
Sarah, the youngest of the family, now Mrs. Jacob A. Miller,
who was born in Carroll County, Ohio, Oct. 24, 1848. She was
but six years of age when her father died, and she lived with her
mother until the demise of the latter, then making her home with her
brothers and sisters until her marriage.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob A. Miller are members of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church at Smithville, Ohio, and he is a teacher
of the Sabbath-school, a work in which he has always taken a special
interest, and with which he has been closely identified for nearly a
quarter of a century, holding the positions of librarian, teacher
and superintendent, and always working earnestly in the cause.
Both he and his wife are highly esteemed members of society, and as
a man of business, a good neighbor and kind friend Jacob A.
Miller bears an enviable reputation, well deserved.
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ALBERT MILLER
is a native of Wayne County, Ohio, born in 1839, a son of Michael
and Margaret Miller. His parents had a family of nine
children, but five of whom are living - Isophena, Albert,
Michael, Augustus and Elizabeth. The names of the
deceased are Mary, Adaline, Isabella and Adolph.
Michael was an early settler of Wayne County, his first purchase
of land being 160 acres in Greene Township, which he subsequently
sold and bought eighty acres in Wayne Township, on which he lived
the rest of his life. He died in 1850, aged forty-eight years,
his
widow in 1869, aged sixty-two years. They were natives of
Germany, coming to America with their parents in their youth.
He was a successful farmer, and one of the respected citizens of
Wayne Township.
Albert Miller was reared in his native
township, which has always been his home, and he received good
educational advantages. He was early instructed in the duties
of farm life, and since attaining manhood has devoted his energies
to that calling. In 1867 he married Maria Lehman,
daughter of John Lehman, of Wayne County, and to them
have been born a family of four children: F. L., F. C, E. A.
and Annie B. In politics Mr. Miller casts
his suffrage with the Democratic party. He has always taken an
active part in the public affairs of his township, and has served as
school director and township trustee.
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CAPT. BENJAMIN F. MILLER,
son of Benjamin and Martha (Hemphill) Miller, natives of
Pennsylvania, was born Oct. 2, 1832, at Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland
Co., Penn. John Miller the grandfather of Benjamin
F., came to Wayne County, Ohio, about 1825, and located in Wayne
Township, where he was engaged in farming. He died there in
1846. Benjamin Miller, father of Benjamin F.,
and the eldest of John's family, was born in Juniata County,
Penn., in 1799. He remained with his parents until eighteen
years of age, when he went to Westmoreland County, Penn., and here
he met the lady whom he married. After this event they first
located at Stewart's Station in the same county. In 1846 they
came to Wayne County, and took up their residence in Wayne Township
for about one year, when they purchased a farm in Chester Township,
same county. In 1863 they retired from the farm, and moved
into Wooster, where they spent the remainder of their lives.
Mr. Miller was an active member of the Whig, and afterward of
the Republican, party, and filled several township offices in
Chester Township. They died in 1880 and 1879, respectively,
prominent members of the Associate Reformed Church. They
reared a family of nine children, all of whom are living except
Margaret, who married John Cherry, and died in Iowa.
Those living are Elizabeth, wife of David B. Funk, of
Wooster, Ohio; Nancy, wife of of John Long,
also of Wooster; John, in Chester Township; Sarah
Ann, wife of Thomas Van Sweergin, of
Congress Township, Wayne County; Mary, a maiden lady, also in
Wooster; Benjamin F., our subject; Derinda, a maiden
lady, in Wooster, and Lucinda, wife of Alex Postleweight,
in Orrville.
The subject of this sketch came to Wayne County with
his parents in 1846, and was reared on the farm, receiving his
education at the township schools. In 1848 he proceeded
overland to the Rocky Mountains and California, spending four years
in that section. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company D,
One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was promoted
to fifth sergeant, then to first lieutenant, and finally to captain
of his company. He was captured at Snaggy Point, La., on the
Red River steamer "Belle," and confined at Camp Ford, near Tyler, in
Northeast Texas, for thirteen months. He and some fellow
prisoners escaped in December, and reached the northern lines in
March, having traveled between 600 and 700 miles. He then
served his country until his honorable discharge at Columbus, Ohio,
June 30, 1865. After the close of the war Capt.
Miller returned to farming and lumbering, and in 1874 he
purchased his present farm. Sept. 28, 1865, he married Miss
Julia A. Baumgardner, daughter of Peter Baumgardner,
of Wayne Township, and they have one child, Ora Eveline,
living at home. Capt. Miller votes the
Republican ticket, and although living in a Democratic township has
held various offices, having served as school director for twelve
years. He is a member of Givens Post, No. 133, G. A. R., of
Wooster, and is a prominent member of the Wooster Presbyterian
Church, having served as one of its trustees for six years.
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C. J. MILLER
was
born in Wayne County in 1845. He is a son of Jacob and
Magdaline (Gindlesberger) Miller. They were the parents of
ten children of whom C. J. as the sixth. The early life
of C. J. Miller was spent at home on his father's farm, and
he was educated in the common schools of the county He learned
the carpenter's trade, which he followed for five years. In
1862 he enlisted in the three-months service, in Company D,
Eighty-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and reenlisted in the
Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry for three years.
After his career in the army he returned to Wayne
County, and was married, in December, 1868, to Sarah Eberly,
daughter of Peter Eberly, a very prominent citizen of Wayne
County. Three children have been born of this marriage:
Cora Elena, Irvin Alden and Roy Edwin. In 1875
Mr. Miller purchased eighty acres of his present farm, owning
now some 130 acres. He has been a successful farmer, and is
among the progressive, intelligent men of Wayne County. He is
a member of the United Brethren Church, a Republican in politics,
and stands deservedly high in the estimation of the community.
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ISAAC MILLER,
farmer, Chester Township, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, Aug. 8,
1834, a son of Abraham and Sarah (Rough) Miller. Abraham
Miller was born in Berks County, Penn., in 1803, and in 1805 his
father, Jacob Miller, moved to Columbiana County, Ohio, where
he was reared. In 1829 he moved to Wayne County, and settled
in Chester Township, where he bought eighty acres of land, to which
he subsequently added until he owned 240 acres. He was by
trade a blacksmith, at which he worked in connection with farming
twenty-five or thirty years. He was twice married; first to
Sarah Rough, and to them were born thirteen children, viz.:
William, Jacob, Abraham, Mary, Isaac, Sarah, Samuel, John, George
W., Daniel, Franklin, Amanda Jane and Benjamin N.
Four of these children are deceased. After married Lizzie
Shenberger, and they have had four children: Matilda and
Malinda (twins), Rebecca and Mathias.
Isaac Miller was reared in his native county,
receiving fair educational advantages. When seventeen years of
age he learned the blacksmith's trade, following that vocation three
years. He is now one of the prominent farmers of Chester
Township, where he has a good farm of sixty-eight acres, all under
cultivation, with good building improvements. He was married,
in 1864, to Sarah Gaerte, daughter of Henry Gaerte, of
Stark County, Ohio, and they have a family of four children, viz.:
Ella J., David F., Zeno A. and Anna Z (twins).
In politics Mr. Miller is a Democrat. He is a member of
the Lutheran Church.
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JOSEPH MILLER,
proprietor of the Miller House and livery stable, Burbank, is
a son of John and Ellen (Rooling) Miller natives of France,
who settled on the Rock River in Medina County, Ohio, where the
father still lives, engaged in stock-dealing. The subject of
this memoir was born in Medina County, Ohio, Jan. 14, 1837, and
received a limited education at the township schools. He
learned the blacksmith's trade which he worked at in Cleveland and
other places. In 1860 he came to Burbank, Wayne County, and
followed his trade for six years, then purchased the hotel which has
since been known as the "Miller House." Mr.
Miller sent a substitute to the War of the Rebellion, and claims
to be the only man drafted from Burbank. He is a veteran stage
driver, having conducted the mail route from Wooster to Belden,
Lorain Co., Ohio, and also a route to Cleveland. In 1861 he
married Miss Lizzie, daughter of Andrew
Stein, of York, Medina County, and by her he has four children:
William, in Burbank, married to Miss Tiny
Gorman; Lizzie, wife of Edward Gipe, in
Uhrichsville, Ohio; Rose, wife of Frank Watson,
in Burbank, and Jennie, at home. Mr. Miller
is an active member of the Republican party.
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MICHAEL MILLER
is
a well-known citizen of Wayne County, and is a native of
Pennsylvania, born in York County, Nov. 12, 1813. His parents,
both native of the same State, were Michael and Ann M. (Horn)
Miller who had eleven children, of whom four are yet living, our
subject and two others in Wayne County, and one in Williams County,
Ohio. In the spring of 1835 the parents came west with their
family, settling in Wooster Township, where both died, the father at
the age of eighty-three years.
The subject of these lines had but limited
opportunities for learning. As a lad he was apprenticed to
learn the carpenter's trade, and he attended night school to obtain
an education. When he was twenty-two years old he settled in
Wooster, working at his trade. Dec. 21, 1837, Mr.
Miller was married to Hannah, daughter of John and
Polly Kauke, a native of Wayne County, born in 1820. They
became the parents of thirteen children, of whom twelve grew to
maturity. They were named: Perry; Elizabeth, now
Mrs. H. Myer; Jane, now deceased, who was the wife of
John Stevens; Araminta, also became the wife of
Mr. Stevens; Kate, wife of Lambert
Sellers; Henry Harrison, Otto and Benjamin,
all of Wooster; Ellen was Mrs. C. Webster, of
Indianapolis, Ind., and is now deceased; Nellie is the wife
of Frank Maxhimer, of Stark County, Ohio; John
is deceased; one child died in infancy, and Anna is the wife
of Aug. W. Eberly, of Wooster.
On first coming to Wooster our subject, not finding
work, went to Cleveland in search of it, going on foot, not being
able to pay stage hire. Returning to Wooster, he found
employment, and from a poor journeyman he grew to be the most
extensive contractor and builder in Wooster, where he has erected
most of the principal buildings and many fine residences. He
built all the school buildings in the city, the university, county
jail and infirmary. Politically he is a Democrat, and has
filled a number of public offices. He has been township
trustee, township treasurer, and for a number of years a member of
the city council. He and his devoted wife are members of the
Disciples Church, and in 1887 had the pleasure of entertaining a
large number of friends at their golden wedding. Mr.
Miller is one of Wayne County's best known and most highly
respected citizens, whose success in life is solely the result of
his own energy, integrity and business tact. Beginning life a
poor boy, he has won for himself not only wealth, but an honorable
name and place in the community. About ten years ago he
partially retired from active labor, and although still engaged in
business, takes life much easier.
Otto, next to the youngest son of our subject, was born
in Wooster Jan. 13, 1861. He attended the Wooster High School,
and in 1882 entered a medical college in Cincinnati, but his health
failing he returned to Wooster and engaged in the grocery business
with his brother Benjamin, the firm being Miller
Bros. June 7, 1887, he was united in marriage with Miss
Maud Jackson, daughter of William and Hannah
Jackson, and a native of Wooster. The father died in
Crestline, Ohio; the mother is now living in Wooster. Mrs.
Miller is a graduate of the Crestline High School.
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SAMUEL HARRISON
MILLER, manufacturer of agricultural implements, Doylestown,
Ohio, was born in Northampton County, Penn., May 28, 1839, a son of
John and Susan (Bauer) Miller, natives also of Northampton
County, his father born Nov. 15, 1802, and his mother born Oct. 29,
1798. In May, 1843, his parents moved to Summit County, Ohio,
and settled in Norton Township, where his father still lives.
His mother died Mar. 7, 1886. They had a family of twelve
children, eight of whom - three sons and five daughters - are still
living. Samuel H. Miller was reared in Summit County,
Ohio, and was given good educational advantages, attending the
district schools, and later the Akron High School. He remained
on the farm until twelve years of age, and then obtained employment
as clerk in a dry goods store at Akron, which he followed six years,
and in 1857 returned to the farm in Norton Township, where he
remained about six years. Dec. 15, 1863, he came to
Doylestown, and for two years was employed as clerk by Cline,
Seiberling & Hower, manufacturers of reapers and mowers.
Sept. 1, 1865, he became a member of the firm of Cline,
Seiberling & Co., which was subsequently changed to
Seiberling, Miller & Co. This is one of the largest
manufacturing establishments of the kind in the county, and in
connection with J. f. Seiberling & Co., of Akron, Ohio, have
entire control of the manufacture of the Empire mowers, reapers and
self-binders, which are sold in every State in the Union.
Mr. Miller was married Aug. 29, 1867, to Ella L. Schneider,
who was born in Montgomery County, Penn., Jan. 27,1 847, a daughter
of Alfred and Clarissa (Clewell) Schneider, both natives of
Pennsylvania, her father of Montgomery County, born Mar. 1, 1813,
and her mother of Northampton County, born Sept. 14, 1820.
They moved to Norton Township, Summit Co., Ohio, in 1852, and still
reside there. Of a family of seven children, six daughters are
living.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller have had a family of eight
children, of whom four - Alfred J., William R., Sydney L. and
Lucille M. - are living. In politics Mr. Miller
is a supporter of the principles of the Republican party, but is in
no sense a politician or office seeker, the only public office he
ever held being that of member of the Board of Education, and
village treasurer. He was reared in the faith of the Lutheran
Church, but is not a member of any religious denomination.
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WILLIAM MILLER,
farmer, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, Apr. 5, 1827, ,a son of
Abraham Miller. When he was two years of age, his
parents moved to Wayne County, and settled in Chester Township,
where he was reared and educated. In his youth he learned the
carpenter's trade, at which he worked seven years, and then learned
the cooper's trade. He has also given his attention to
agriculture, and now owns one of the best farms in Plain Township,
on which he has lived since 1870. He has never sought official
honors, preferring the quiet of home life, but gives his suffrage to
the Democratic party.
He was married in 1852 to Elizabeth, daughter of
George Snyder. She died, leaving one son,
Stephen Albert. Mr. Miller
subsequently married Margaret Rice, and to them were born six
children, five of whom are living; Sarah Elizabeth,
A. O., Susan M., Mary J. and William R.,
all of whom are at home. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are
members of the Lutheran Church.
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CAPTAIN DAVID MITCHELL,
son of James and Elizabeth (Kerr) Mitchell, was born in
Jefferson County, Ohio, Mar. 22, 1829. His father, who was a
native of Pennsylvania, and a soldier in the War of 1812, came to
Ohio, and located near what was afterward known as Mitchell's
Salt-works, in Jefferson County, where he reared a family of ten
children, and died in October, 1865. The mother of our subject
was a native of Ohio, and a daughter of James Kerr, an early
pioneer of Jefferson County, Ohio; she died in 1844. Capt.
Mitchell was married in Jefferson County, Ohio, Oct. 3, 1854, to
Miss May Saltsman, who bore six children, three of whom are now
living.
Captain Mitchell, in May, 1861, raised a company
(composing 107 men) of Home Guards, in Ross Township, Jefferson Co.,
Ohio, which, in the following June, was mustered into the militia
reserve. In September, 1861 the Captain applied for and
obtained an order from the governor of Ohio to raise a volunteer
company for the three years' service, and in a few days after
receiving the order he had a company raised of hardy and determined
volunteers. This company was mustered in at Camp King, near
Covington, Ky., Oct. 3, 1861, and transferred to the Second Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, Col. L. A. Harris, which was assigned to
the First Brigade, First Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, Army of
the Cumberland. Col. Harris and his regiment
participated in all the important battles in which that corps was
engaged, some of the most notable being Perryville, battle of Stone
River, Chickamauga, with Hooker at Lookout Mountain, Missionary
Ridge, Resaca, and numerous other minor engagements. On the
14th of May, 1864, while attempting to storm the breastworks at
Resaca, Capt. Mitchell, while leading on his men, was struck
in the leg by a minie ball. He managed to crawl off the field,
and was later carried to the field hospital, where he remained only
a short time, having a thirty days' furlough. Although badly
wounded, and having the privilege of retiring, the Captain, at the
expiration of his furlough, nobly returned to the front. After
three years' service, Capt. Mitchell and the shattered
remnant of his company were mustered out, receiving an honorable
discharge at Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 10, 1864.
Our subject was engaged in mercantile pursuits prior to
his enlistment, and when the war ended, he returned to his old home
in Jefferson County, Ohio, and to the present time he has since
almost un-interruptedly been engaged in merchandising. From
Jefferson County he came to West Salem, Wayne County, June 7, 1867,
and has here since resided. Genial and pleasant, now at the
age of sixty years, he is enjoying comparative repose, through never
idle, and exhibits as much determination to fight out the battle of
life as he did when leading on his brave volunteers to crush out the
Rebellion.
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SAMUEL MITCHELL.
This old resident of Wayne County is a son of one of its early
pioneers, and was born in Franklin Township, Sept. 20, 1820.
His grandfather, Jesse Mitchell, was a resident of Franklin
County, Penn., and was of Irish extraction. In this latter
county our subject's father, Samuel Mitchell, was
born, and was there married to Miss Mary McGugen, by whom he
had four children: Jesse, who died in February, 1839;
Cynthia, who passed from earth in 1818; Maria, wife of
John McClellan, of Wooster, and Samuel.
In 1812 Samuel Mitchell, Sr., came to Wayne
County, to make a home in the then new West. The Indians
proved so hostile, however, that, after burying his farming tools,
etc., he returned to Pennsylvania. In 1813 he came back to
Wooster, where at that time but three families were living. He
had left his cows to run wild on going away, and it was with great
difficulty they were found. The land was wild and totally
unimproved, but, building a log cabin, the brave pioneers toiled to
make a home and rear a family. Both the parents lived to an
old age, each being eighty-seven years old at time of death.
The father passed away in 1864, and the mother in 1869. These
grand and brave old pioneers were of the right material for this new
and wild country, and did the work necessary to develop its
resources, and to lay the foundation of its
present prosperity, which is due to such as they. Mr.
Mitchell was trusted and relied upon by his fellow-pioneers,
and was by them elected a number of times township trustee.
For a number of years, also, he held a commission as justice of the
peace. He was a member of the United Presbyterian Church, and
his wife of the Presbyterian Church, and both were well known and
greatly respected by their compeers.
Samuel Mitchell, our subject, was born a
pioneer's child, and in his youth had to endure the hardships and
trials of those early days. His only educational facilities
were such as were to be obtained in the log school-house of the day,
so familiar to the children of the early settlers. But these
old cabins turned out a sturdy race of men and women, well fitted to
cope with the difficulties of life in a new country. In 1849
Mr. Mitchell was united in marriage with Miss Mary
A., daughter of John and Nancy McClellan, whose history
is given on another page in this volume. She was born in
Wooster, but when a child her parents removed to a farm six miles
from that place, later going to Xenia, Ohio, where she met and
married Mr. Mitchell. After their marriage they
came to his father's old homestead in this county, and there made
their home until 1868, when they removed to Wooster, where they have
since lived. They have no children, but in the Mitchell
family lives Miss Sarah Preston, who has been a member of the
family since 1824, when she was a girl of ten years of age.
Her grandfather, William Nixon, was one of the first
residents of Franklin Township, and her father, William
Preston, and her mother, neι
Ruth Nixon, both died when the daughter was a little
girl, the father in 1820, the mother in 1827.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell are members of the
Presbyterian Church. They have during their lives witnessed
many changes in this part of the country. He has often heard
his mother tell of being alone in their cabin with her two little
children while the Indians were prowling around, and no fastening on
their door; but by keeping quiet and concealed, the red-skins
supposed the cabin to be empty and passed on. Mr. and Mrs.
Mitchell are to-day among the oldest settlers in the county, in
which they have hosts of friends whose good wishes attend them
through life, and none are more deserving than they of a place in
this work.
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CAPT. DAVID MITCHELL Source:
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JOHN MOYERS Source:
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ISAAC A MUNSON, son of
Henry and Mary (Cutter)
Munson, was born Sept. 19, 1823, in
Franklin Township, Wayne Co., Ohio.
Isaac Munson, the
grandfather of Isaac A.,
was born in Connecticut, and
located in New York State.
In 1815 he and his son,
Henry, moved to Wayne
Co., Ohio, and first located in the
southern part thereof, on what is now Holmes County.
After remaining there a short time he purchased the farm
which is now owned by his grandson,
Henry, where he lived until his death, in 1830.
He was a Revolutionary soldier, and an active Democrat in
politics. His son,
Henry, the father of
Isaac A., was born in Connecticut in 1797, and came to Wayne
County, Ohio, with his father, in 1815.
He was reared a farmer, and always remained on the homestead,
except about five years residence in Shreve.
He took quite an active part in the affairs of his township.
He died in 1868; his widow in 1871.
Henry and Mary Munson
reared seven children, three of whom are still living, viz.:
Samuel, in Medina County, Ohio, and Isaac A.
and Henry, on the old
homestead, in Franklin Township.
The
subject of this sketch attended the common schools of his township,
and has always been engaged in farming.
He was married, in 1848, to
Miss Eliza Ann Lowe,
daughter of Jacob Lowe, a
native of New Jersey, and a settler in Holmes County, Ohio.
She died in 1853, leaving two children, one of whom is now
deceased. The other,
Mary E., is the wife of
Samuel Gissenger, of Holmes County,
and by him has three children:
Iva, Harry and
Emma. Our subject
married for his second wife, in 1856,
Miss Susanna Thomas,
daughter of Lewis Thomas,
of Wooster, Ohio, and by this union there is one child,
Charles, who lives at
home.
Mr. Munson moved to his
present farm, in Franklin Township,
in 1848, and has made it one of the best improved in the township.
Politically, he is a Democrat.
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MRS. MARY JANE MYERS.
This well-known lady has been a resident of Wayne County all her
life, having been born in Wooster Township, May 22, 1824. Her
father, John Kauke, a native of Holland, came to
America with his parents when a small boy. They stopped for a
time in Pennsylvania, when Christopher, grandfather of Mrs.
Myers, came to Wayne County, in which he passed the remainder
of his life. The family made the journey in covered wagons.
John Kauke grew to manhood in Pennsylvania, and there
learned the trade of shoe-making. He was married to Miss
Mary Hoover, who was born about seven miles from Wilkes
Barre, Penn., in which State both her parents died. John
Kauke and his wife came to Wayne County about 1816, and he
there engaged in the manufacture of brick, making some of the first
ever burnt in Wooster. Both he and his wife died in this
county.
When she was seventeen years of age Mary Jane Kauke
was united in marriage with JOHN MYERS, a native of Columbiana
County, Ohio, whose father, also named John, was born in
Pennsylvania, and came as a pioneer to Wayne County. The
latter was a wagoner, and teamed between Baltimore and Pittsburgh
when goods were transported altogether by wagon. John
Myers, husband of our subject, learned the trade of
carpentering in his native county, and worked at it after coming to
this county. For three years after their marriage the young
couple lived in what is known as the haunted house, in Wooster
Township. On the death of his mother they went to live with
his father, staying with him two years, and then removing to a farm
in Chester Township, remaining on it for twelve years. His
father dying, they again went to the old homestead for three years,
after which they returned to their own farm. In 1870 the
family removed to the house the father had built in Wooster, which
is Mrs. Myers' present home, and lived there five
years, but in the fall of 1873 death took from the family circle two
sons and a daughter-in-law, and the afflicted parents again returned
to their farm, trying by active labor to assuage their grief.
In the spring of 1884 the grim reaper again invaded their
hearthstone, this time taking away the husband and father, at the
age of sixty-seven years. John Myers was a
prominent man in the county, and exercised a considerable influence
in its affairs. He was well known and much respected by those
who knew him, and left behind not only a competence, but the better
heritage of a good name. In politics he was a stanch Republican, and
while a resident of Chester Township was for many years township
assessor and township trustee.
By her marriage with Mr. Myers our
subject became the mother of eight children, of whom we make the
following record: John H. died in childhood; Walter M.
entered the army during the Civil War, in the 100-day men, and died
while in the service, of typhoid fever; Samuel B., or "
Doc," as he was familiarly called, is also deceased, he and his
wife dying a few hours apart, of typhoid fever, leaving two
children, Sydney D. and Laura B., who are being reared
and educated by Mrs. Myers; the next in order of birth
is Mary Ellen, who is now Mrs. Snyder,
of Chester Township; Charles is deceased; Brown is
living in Nebraska; Grant is a book-keeper, and makes his
home with his mother; and an infant, who died unnamed,
completes the list. The fall following her husband's death
Mrs. Myers came back to Wooster, and has since made her
home in her pleasant house on Sayboldt Avenue. For forty-eight
years Mr. Myers has been a member of the Baptist
Church, and his widow has now been a member for the same number of
years. All the children who grew to maturity also became
members of the same church. The family is one of the oldest
and best known in the county, and will long be remembered as among
its worthy pioneers. They are esteemed and respected by every
person with whom they come in contact.
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